Join us Friday, June 25th, for an outdoor showing of The Big Lebowski around 9:30pm. We’re telling everyone to BYOBR (bring your own bathrobe!) because we’ll be having a The Dude Look-a-Like Contest before the movie starts! After the movie, the crowd is headed over to 20th Century Bowl for 3 games of Midnight Lebowski Shabbos Bowl. $5 gets you shoes and 3 games!

The Pickford Film Center was founded in 1998 by a small group of local film fans dedicated to making high-quality cinema available in Bellingham and the entire Whatcom County region. The mission of PFC is to provide a forum and resource for independent cinema, strengthening community through education, dialogue and the celebration of film. PFC offers year-round, independent, foreign and documentary film and related special events.

the Boundary Bay Beer Garden

The fun starts around 9:30 pm in the Boundary Bay Brewery Beer Garden. A donation to the Pickford ($5 suggested) is all you’ll pay to watch the movie…plus you’ll have our kick-a** craft beer and pizza slices for your palette’s pleasure during the movie! We’re excited about this event because it’s small, local businesses teaming up to bring our community a little Big Lebowski love! We’re doing it for fun, to help raise money for the Pickford Film Center and to have a night purely for celebrating everything Lebowski! And who doesn’t love The Dude?!?

Alright all you fans of Boundary Bay Brewery…get ready to clear your calendars for the end of THIS week. You better just plan on moving in here at the brewery! This Wednesday, September 16th, is the official 14th Birthday of Boundary Bay Brewery. Some of you loyal fans have been right there along with us since we opened our doors in 1995 and we can’t even begin to explain to you how much that matters to us.

parking at Boundary Bay Brewery!

We’re celebrating our birthday on Thursday, September 17th down in the Beer Garden. Come join us for free cake and ice cream during our Happy Hour (4-6 pm) and stick around for Happy Hour Music brought to you by Robert Sarazin Blake. We chose to delay the celebration by one day so we could all celebrate this momentous occasion by raising a glass of this year’s very first Harvest Ale. Making it’s debut as our Thursday Cask Ale this week, this Autumn seasonal ale comes once a year and is brewed in limited quantities so don’t miss this chance to taste this beautiful red-orange beer with rich malty flavors. This is our Autumn seasonal beer that bears only a distant connection to the German “Oktoberfest” style from which it gets its inspiration. Our take on the Oktoberfest style results in a full bodied beer with maltiness as the predominate flavor…perfect for our cool fall evenings. Get here by 4 pm to get your first taste. But, if you miss out on Thursday’s cask, it will be officially on tap here at the brewery Friday, September 18th.

movies in our Beer Garden

And speaking of Friday, the 18th…here’s what so many of you have been waiting all summer for! It has been a summertime tradition for Boundary Bay and the Pickford Theater to join forces and show movies in the beer garden. Sadly, this summer, it didn’t happen. But, we just couldn’t let a whole summer go by without at least ONE movie in the garden. And, if we can only show ONE movie…it’s gotta be The Big Lebowski! Come dressed in costume if that’s your thing and bring blankets or pillows for comfy movie viewing. The movie will start around 9 pm, but come early to score a sweet seat and grab some beer battered rockfish and chips from our Beer Garden grill to satisfy your munchies before the movie starts. The grill – and our Garden Bar – will be open at 4 pm!

On Saturday, September 19th, if you’re still looking for a little Boundary Bay Brewery action, you’ve got a couple options. The BellinghamTraverse starts and ends right here at Boundary Bay Brewery so come get an eagle eye view of this area’s best racers! All teams gather to finish the last leg together as they “trek” the last 1/2 mile to the finish line at the Depot Market Square and Boundary Bay Brewery where they are awarded a nice cold Traverse Ale. Each year we brew the Traverse Red Ale and welcome the racers to the finish line with open arms right here at our brewery! A generous amount of Vienna, Crystal, and Chocolate malts give this ale a big malty body with a deep ruby color. The addition of Centennial, Mt. Hood, and Liberty hops provide a smooth refreshing finish, creating a perfect summer session beer to cool off with after a long “Traverse.” The awards ceremony for the racers begins at 6 pm and then live music from The Special Purpose kicks off at 7pm!

September 19th is also, strangely, Talk Like A Pirate Day and you can be sure of a little pirate party here at the brewery to celebrate such a strange and silly holiday. Costumes are welcome all day long and we’ll be sportin’ our pirate attire and talkin’ like a pirate whenever we can. As the Traverse awards ceremony wraps up, our Pirate Party will be moving down into the beer garden with our own Master of Ceremonies (David Ney of Pirates R Us!) will be taking the stage at 9pm. There will be a costume contest (with prizes!) and awards given for Best Pirate Joke and Best Pirate Haiku!

Movies in the Beer Garden: The Pickford Film Center’s (formerly known as the Whatcom Film Association) Traveling Pickford Show will collaborate with Boundary Bay Brewery again this summer to produce another great season of outdoor cult movies, micro-brew and live entertainment.

The season will begin on Thursday, July 10th and will take place each Thursday evening until September 11th. Proceeds raised will benefit the Pickford Film Center (PFC), the nonprofit organization that runs the Pickford Cinema, and will support the new Pickford Film Center project at 1318 Bay Street. Admission will be $5.00 (with one free popcorn) per person. All movies are intended for a 21+ audience.